Saturday, May 24, 2008

In-Progress At Mansfield: Craftsman Trucks On SPEED

The Craftsman Truck Series moves to the half-mile at Mansfield Motorsports Park on Saturday afternoon for a live race on SPEED. The track is located in Mansfield, Ohio.

The Set-Up at 12:30PM Eastern Time will kick-off the coverage. Since regular pre-race host Krista Voda is at Lowes' Motor Speedway working for Fox, it should be Rick Allen who hosts this show as well as the race coverage.

Ray Dunlap and Adam Alexander will be reporting from pit road. Phil Parsons will be alongside of Allen in the booth. The TV race coverage begins at 1PM.

Last week Johnny Benson was a panelist on NASCAR Now, and then he went out and grabbed the pole at Mansfield averaging slightly over 110mph. This should be a good short-track race that will have a fast pace.

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Unbelievably exciting finish and Speed certainly had the right men in the broadcast booth to convey that excitement to the fans at home. Great job by Rick Allen & Phil Parsons.

Loved the vertical results drop-down at the finish. That's much more effective than the ESPN method of doing it horizontally and only showing 3 names at a time and the Fox method of... well ... doing nothing. I was bummed that we didn't get to see everyone finish but I can at least understand the reasoning behind that decision in a rare instance like this where the finish for the win was that close and that exciting (even though I still disagreed with it).

I've gotta tip my cap to David Starr for being such a class act. A lot of drivers could learn from how Mr. Starr handled that situation.

And of course major kudos to Donny Lia. WOW. I got yelled out here for suggesting that Lia should have gotten more TV coverage at Martinsville instead of getting completely buried by the story of another newcomer that he outran on that day. Now I definitely feel much better about the stance I made back then :)

Speed did a good job today but did miss some restarts.It was a good finish but a poor race.Nascar needs to order up some soft tires for all the series.On a side note Stricklinfan82 says D.Starr was a class act.While I would never disagree with anything stricklinfan82 says Dennis Setzer might.

I was referring to the post-race interview where Starr was gracious to Donny Lia despite the last lap contact. The Setzer incident had slipped my mind but now that you mention it that might be why he was so gracious to Lia, LOL. Very good point.